I’ve had a cruddy day, so please indulge me in a visit to my favorite micro-genre of mainstream Indian cinema: people looking for things in Calcutta.I love a mystery. I love characters on a quest for knowledge that is ultimately used for resolution or even justice. I am […]
Every Frame A Painting is back as Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos look at Ozu in color for TCM! “The cinema of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu is explored in this new exclusive TCM Original. The creators Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos are the duo behind the celebrated YouTube […]
Chelsea Rialto Studios’ Ray Faiola has released the short curtain call epilogue from the original pre-code release of Tod Browning’s Dracula starring Béla Lugosi. “This is the actual footage of the Edward Van Sloan curtain speech from the end of Dracula. The picture came from a 16mm SILENT […]
At the Feminine Critique Podcast, friends of the Gutter Emily Intravia and Christine Makepeace “cordially invite you to the most awkward double wedding in cinematic history. On this obvious episode, the ladies tackle 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein and 1985’s The Bride. It’s a scream!” Listen here.
Listen to BBC Radio 4’s chilling 2002 adaptation of four classic tales, “Who Goes There?” (the basis of The Thing (1982) and The Thing From Another World (1951)); “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”; “Delta Sly Honey”; and “Corona.” Listen here.
At The Means At Hand, Max Maxwell writes about the intersection of crime and magic (in weird and horror writing). “It’s not such a stretch to see criminal conspiracies as the kinds of dark power that beat at the heart of horror novels. Not simply the violation of […]
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